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greg muttitt today greg on iraq, libya, and syria. we go to baltimore for the green party national convention. >> the top 400 people on more wealth now than the bottom 185 million americans together. that is the medieval structure. >> gar alperovitz, author of, "america beyond capitalism: reclaiming our wealth, our liberty, and our democracy." all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the syrian capital of damascus is seeing some its heaviest fighting to date since the uprising against syrian president bashar al-assad erupted over a year ago. heavy weaponry including tanks and mortar fire has reportedly been used in areas to the city's south. committee of the red cross to join the united nations in describing the conflict in syria as a civil war. the red cross had previously kept its assessment to a handful of flashpoint areas, but now says the violence is nationwide. the observer mission meanwhile has confirmed heavy weaponry was used last week in the villag
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now, greg, let me ask you, what is the dharmadhatu meditation center, and could you tell us a little bit about your role here? >> the chicago dharmadhatu is a buddhist meditation and study center that was founded by chogyam trungpa rinpoche, and we are a city meditation center, which people come here to practice the practice of sitting meditation. and my function is, basically, i'm a major teacher here in chicago for our group, and people come here and we both practice meditation and study the buddhist teachings. >> and really quickly, some of the differences in the different types of buddhism that are here in chicago? >> well, just to back up a little bit, historically, buddhism started in india 2,500 years ago, and for that- when the buddha was alive, which i should mention that from a buddhist perspective, we do not look at the buddha as a god. >> oh, that's very helpful. >> it's a nontheistic tradition. and so buddha was a human being who came to some realizations, and he taught those realizations to his students, and in turn, that was taught to generations of students, and from
now, greg, let me ask you, what is the dharmadhatu meditation center, and could you tell us a little bit about your role here? >> the chicago dharmadhatu is a buddhist meditation and study center that was founded by chogyam trungpa rinpoche, and we are a city meditation center, which people come here to practice the practice of sitting meditation. and my function is, basically, i'm a major teacher here in chicago for our group, and people come here and we both practice meditation and...
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we're here with greg leibon, research mathematician at dartmouth college, and, greg, can i see four dimensions without hurting myself? >> you're going to have to go through a little bit of pain to see into higher dimensions, but the pain comes in the form of analogies and metaphors. so we would probably start understanding four dimensions by thinking a little about what we know in lower dimensions. for example, we could start with a cube. >> okay, great, great. we've got our cube. >> we've got our cube here. and there's a few things worth observing first. that looks like a three-dimensional cube to us, but of course this is on a two-dimensional screen. this is some sort of projection. >> that's true, that's true. it's a total cheat. >> but our brains are, fortunately in this case, very hardwired to interpret this as a three-dimensional object. four dimensions is much trickier because, for example, here is a picture of a four-dimensional cube that we'll just look at for a second just to get a sense. it looks very cluttered. it's the same sort of projection where now we've gone from a cube in fo
we're here with greg leibon, research mathematician at dartmouth college, and, greg, can i see four dimensions without hurting myself? >> you're going to have to go through a little bit of pain to see into higher dimensions, but the pain comes in the form of analogies and metaphors. so we would probably start understanding four dimensions by thinking a little about what we know in lower dimensions. for example, we could start with a cube. >> okay, great, great. we've got our cube....
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so here to help us is greg corrigan, sior director of produce and floral for raley's. greg, good to see you again. >> you, too. >> so, asparagus. >> asparagus is one of the all-pime favorites. absolutely. >> what are we looking for here? >> well, you definitely want a nice green stalk. hopefully it's all the way down. sometimes it's not quite all the way down. you'll sometimes see some of that light woodiness. these do look really good. so you would definitely want to see that. you want to see no feathering of the tips. if you see that, that's starting to get d and dry out. so you don't want to see any feathering of the tips. nice tight buds just like this. beautiful. this is actually really nice looking asparagus. >> perfect. i's perfect. >> of course. >> look at that. so you're saying if it's, like, white right here... >> towards the base. some people like to peel it off with a peeler, or some people will snap it actually. where it snaps, the'll throw that part out. but we definitely want to avoid any of the white woodiness on any of that asparagus. >> ok. so another
so here to help us is greg corrigan, sior director of produce and floral for raley's. greg, good to see you again. >> you, too. >> so, asparagus. >> asparagus is one of the all-pime favorites. absolutely. >> what are we looking for here? >> well, you definitely want a nice green stalk. hopefully it's all the way down. sometimes it's not quite all the way down. you'll sometimes see some of that light woodiness. these do look really good. so you would definitely want...
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his impeachment has been condemned pretty we will speak with greg grandin, author of, "empire's workshop: latin america, the united states, and the rise of the new imperialism." as rio plus 20 earth summit ends in disappointment, we will speak with david suzuki, one of the beating canadian environmentalist. >> the planet is in terrible shape. the difficulty is meetings like this are doomed to fail because we see ourselves at the center of everything. our political and economic priorities have to dominate over everything else. >> david suzuki on the climate crisis, student protests, his childhood growing up, and interment cacamp. his daughter spoke in 1992 when she was 12 years old. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi has been declared the winner in egypt's presidential race one week after the vote was held. morsi picked up 13.2 million votes, or 51%, beating out former egyptian prime minister ahmed shafiq, who received 12.3 million. tens of thousands of people flo
his impeachment has been condemned pretty we will speak with greg grandin, author of, "empire's workshop: latin america, the united states, and the rise of the new imperialism." as rio plus 20 earth summit ends in disappointment, we will speak with david suzuki, one of the beating canadian environmentalist. >> the planet is in terrible shape. the difficulty is meetings like this are doomed to fail because we see ourselves at the center of everything. our political and economic...
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so i'm very happy to be here with greg leibon, a mathematician at dartmouth college. >> thank you, dan. >> our poor topologist, it turns out he was on a torus, but in fact he could have been on many other kinds of surfaces, right? >> that's right. when you go to classify or think about what are the possibilities of surfaces, there are two major kinds, especially in terms of what you need to get used to to think about them. >> so there's a first distinction: there are orientable surfaces and there are nonorientable surfaces. >> that's right. and it's nice to think -- maybe first the simplest example of something that's nonorientable. >> the most famous example, in fact. >> this is the most famous example, the mobius strip. and if we imagine that this has no thickness -- we have to keep those things in mind. and maybe one other thing, it has a boundary, which means it has some kind of edge to it. in fact, this is a fun thing to do right off the bat is you follow this edge around. it only has one edge. so it's important, we're thinking intrinsically here. we're living inside the surface.
so i'm very happy to be here with greg leibon, a mathematician at dartmouth college. >> thank you, dan. >> our poor topologist, it turns out he was on a torus, but in fact he could have been on many other kinds of surfaces, right? >> that's right. when you go to classify or think about what are the possibilities of surfaces, there are two major kinds, especially in terms of what you need to get used to to think about them. >> so there's a first distinction: there are...
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and here to help us is greg corrigan, senior director of produce and floral here at raley's. all right, potato, pot-ah-to, whatever you call it. i don't know. >> you say potato, i say pot-ah-to. >> right. that's why we'll go to dinner tomorrow. but what do i need to know about picking out a good potato? >> well, there's--first of all, there's lots of choices when it cames to potatoes. >> ok. >> you got from sweet potatoes to yams to yukons to the new fingerling type potatoes. you definitely want to look for not too much cutting or scarring or decaying or molding inside cracks. >> sprouting. >> or sprouting. >> sprouting would be bad. >> sprouting is another thing you want to try to avoid. and storage-wise, you want to keep them in a cool spot. ideally, you want to keep them about 45 degrees. but that's not easy to find sometimes. in the wintertime, it's good to put them in the refrigerator as long as you're not in a spot where it's freezing. and here in california, we don't have to worry about that too much. >> true, true. >> so in the garage in a nice cool spot in a paper ba
and here to help us is greg corrigan, senior director of produce and floral here at raley's. all right, potato, pot-ah-to, whatever you call it. i don't know. >> you say potato, i say pot-ah-to. >> right. that's why we'll go to dinner tomorrow. but what do i need to know about picking out a good potato? >> well, there's--first of all, there's lots of choices when it cames to potatoes. >> ok. >> you got from sweet potatoes to yams to yukons to the new fingerling...
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. >> my name is greg miller. i am a veteran of the united states industry. in an attempt to fill the void where their consciences to be once they indoctrinate it out of you, but that did not work on me, so i am here to return my medals because they are both lies. >> my name is jerry, i am from new york city. i served in the army from 2005 through 2009. i fought in iraq. i am giving back my global war on terrorism service medal because i realize that it was just nothing but an idea made by a bunch of politicians, money hungry politicians who will do nothing and have a complete disregard for human life and will do everything in their power to just make more money. now, if it is just an idea, then it was just an idea that's part two more than i had to fight in, and i do not want any part of it anymore. i'd choose human life over war, militarism, and imperialism. >> i am an iraq war veteran. i am turning in these medals today for the people of afghanistan, iraq, pakistan, and all victims of occupation run the world, and also, for all of the service members and v
. >> my name is greg miller. i am a veteran of the united states industry. in an attempt to fill the void where their consciences to be once they indoctrinate it out of you, but that did not work on me, so i am here to return my medals because they are both lies. >> my name is jerry, i am from new york city. i served in the army from 2005 through 2009. i fought in iraq. i am giving back my global war on terrorism service medal because i realize that it was just nothing but an idea...
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he is co author with greg mitchell of the book, "turth and consequences: the u.s. vs. bradley manning." welcome to "democracy now!" tell us what is happened so far. >> to some and up, i was said this proceeding has been all about discovery of evidence. hasing's defense lawyer been trying to get the government to provide him with documents that would show just how the government responded to the leaks that came from the wikileaks disclosures, particularly he has been interested in the u.s. and izzy cables. a lot of the focus in the past couple of months, and is going back to march, has been about getting the state department damage assessment report. that is how we saw the state department witnesses taking the stand yesterday during the proceeding. in addition to that, we have also seen the have litigated, trying to get the dismissal of computer fraud charges and arguing that he could not have exceeded authorized access because he did in fact have clearance or his -- we have had discussions in the courtroom about getting access to an fbi law enforcement file. so the mai
he is co author with greg mitchell of the book, "turth and consequences: the u.s. vs. bradley manning." welcome to "democracy now!" tell us what is happened so far. >> to some and up, i was said this proceeding has been all about discovery of evidence. hasing's defense lawyer been trying to get the government to provide him with documents that would show just how the government responded to the leaks that came from the wikileaks disclosures, particularly he has been...
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the case was exposed by investigative reporter greg palast last year. you can go to democracynow.org to see his report. texas is carried out its first execution using a single lethal drug instead of three. 33-year old yokamon hearn was killed with a dose of the sedative, despite concerns from death penalty opponents that it takes prisoners longer to die with a single drug method. he was killed despite claims by his lawyers he had mental impairment due to fetal alcohol syndrome. he was pronounced dead 25 minutes after the injection began. at least four other states, including ohio, arizona, idaho, and washington also use a single drug for executions. earlier this become a george opposed on the execution of another death row prisoner as it also prepares to execute prisoners using a single drug. a man who stripped naked at an airport in portland, oregon security checkpoint earlier this year to oppose airport screening measures has been found not guilty of indecent exposure. john brennan was arrested and charged in portland and as a parable in april -- airp
the case was exposed by investigative reporter greg palast last year. you can go to democracynow.org to see his report. texas is carried out its first execution using a single lethal drug instead of three. 33-year old yokamon hearn was killed with a dose of the sedative, despite concerns from death penalty opponents that it takes prisoners longer to die with a single drug method. he was killed despite claims by his lawyers he had mental impairment due to fetal alcohol syndrome. he was...
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brigadier-general tammy smith has become the openly gay officer of fly greg wright, the first openly gay officer a flat rate in the u.s. military. on friday, smith came out when she had her wife and her star to her uniform during a promotion ceremony. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show with the latest news in u.s. presidential race. on saturday, republican presidential hopeful mitt romney announced congressman paul ryan of wisconsin would be his vice presidential running mate. ryan, now 42, was elected to the house of representatives at 28. he is chair of the house of representatives budget committee. ryan spoke in virginia right after his selection was made. >> i asked by governor romney to serve the country that i love -- [applause] jams built, wisconsin is where i was born and raised and never really left. it is our home now. for the last 14 years, i have proudly represented wisconsin in congress. [applause] there i have focused on solving the problems that confront our country, turning ideas into action and
brigadier-general tammy smith has become the openly gay officer of fly greg wright, the first openly gay officer a flat rate in the u.s. military. on friday, smith came out when she had her wife and her star to her uniform during a promotion ceremony. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show with the latest news in u.s. presidential race. on saturday, republican presidential hopeful mitt romney announced congressman...
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the judge's ruling came in a lawsuit challenging the ndaa, filed by greg journalists, scholars, and political activists including chris hedges and noam chomsky. in campaign news, mitt romney is expected to unofficially to clinch the republican presidential nomination today with a winning republican primary in texas. the obama campaign continues to criticize romney over his record at the private equity firm bain capital. obama's senior campaign advisor robert gibbs appeared on "face the nation goes >> on sunday. >> what they did was focus on job creation. that is not what bain capital does. and loads of companies with debt, it takes money out of those companies and pays those investors. it is not about job creation and that is what mitt romney is running on. >> researchers have found radioactive bluefin tuna off the coast of california that were contaminated by last year's fukushima dai-ichi nuclear plant disaster in japan. the discovery marks the first time radiation from the disaster has been found in fish that migrated into california waters. researchers say the levels of radioactive produc
the judge's ruling came in a lawsuit challenging the ndaa, filed by greg journalists, scholars, and political activists including chris hedges and noam chomsky. in campaign news, mitt romney is expected to unofficially to clinch the republican presidential nomination today with a winning republican primary in texas. the obama campaign continues to criticize romney over his record at the private equity firm bain capital. obama's senior campaign advisor robert gibbs appeared on "face the...
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another officer convicted of burning glover's body after he bled to death, greg mcrae, also sought a key charge missed -- dismissed. a federal appeals court has cleared the way for a lawsuit filed by peace activists in olympia, washington over spying by u.s. military informant who infiltrated their group. declassified documents obtained by students for democratic society and port militarization resistance reveal the man everyone knew as john jacob was in fact john tower, a member of the force protection service at fort lewis. when "democracy now!" he wrote the story in 2009, one of the activists said towery had personally admitted to the spine. >> he admitted he did in fact spy on us, infiltrate us. he admitted he passed on information to an intelligence network, which as you mentioned earlier, was composed of dozens of law-enforcement agencies ranging from municipal to county to state to regional and several federal agencies, including immigration customs enforcement, a joint terrorism task force, fbi, homeland security, the army in fort lewis. >> the exposure of the spying led to d
another officer convicted of burning glover's body after he bled to death, greg mcrae, also sought a key charge missed -- dismissed. a federal appeals court has cleared the way for a lawsuit filed by peace activists in olympia, washington over spying by u.s. military informant who infiltrated their group. declassified documents obtained by students for democratic society and port militarization resistance reveal the man everyone knew as john jacob was in fact john tower, a member of the force...
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i want to read an excerpt from greg grenell's book for it is a professor of latin american history at new york university. he writes, the problem was the military groups have very little popular support ryan grim? >> i spoke with the pollster who did a lot of work in the country in the 1980's for univision and now, coincidentally, became a pollster for hillary clinton and working with the obama campaign now. he knew d'abussion and new lot of the people who were involved with these death squads, and he said, and this is what i have heard from other people familiar with the community, that this is not something they would hide. like you said, they were persuaded the were freedom fighters and on the side of justice, and that if it meant you had to kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people, those were evil people who were supported by castro who wanted to bring about tierney, etc., etc. everything they were doing was justified by that. mitt romney, he even hinted at that in his 2007 talk to the miami crowd when he came down to raise money for his campaign. he said, not onl
i want to read an excerpt from greg grenell's book for it is a professor of latin american history at new york university. he writes, the problem was the military groups have very little popular support ryan grim? >> i spoke with the pollster who did a lot of work in the country in the 1980's for univision and now, coincidentally, became a pollster for hillary clinton and working with the obama campaign now. he knew d'abussion and new lot of the people who were involved with these death...
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about how to pick the best produce, and there's nobody better to tell us about that than my friend greg corrigan of raley's, vice-president of produce and floral here. so first of all, tomatoes. how do you pk the best tomato? >> well, tomatoes here, one of our best sellers is the tomato on the vine, as you're seeing right here. so they're grown actually indoors, so most of the time, all you gotta look for is make sure there's no blemishes, no cuts, no scars. but generally they're consistent, good tomatoes. >> ok. >> and one thing that's commonly misunderstood is people tend to put tomatoes in the refrigerator. >> yeah, i do that. that's not good? >> you don't want to do that. and actually, anything below 55 degrees causds them to break down. they get mealy. they actually lose their flavor. >> ohh. >> so you don't want to do that. and you want to keep them out on your counter. you notice this, as it's growing, the riper ones are towards the top where the plant grows. >> right. >> so those are the 2 tomatoes you want to use first. >> ok. >> so as you work through the week, you'll pick tho
about how to pick the best produce, and there's nobody better to tell us about that than my friend greg corrigan of raley's, vice-president of produce and floral here. so first of all, tomatoes. how do you pk the best tomato? >> well, tomatoes here, one of our best sellers is the tomato on the vine, as you're seeing right here. so they're grown actually indoors, so most of the time, all you gotta look for is make sure there's no blemishes, no cuts, no scars. but generally they're...
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here to help us out is greg corrigan, senior director of produce and floral here at raley's. greg, good to see you again. >> hey there. >> so when i walk up to this display, i have no idea what makes a good mushroom or a bad mushroom. so how do i pick a good one? >> well, the mushroom guys would argue that they're all good. but there are some differences, and you do want to look for mushrooms that are nice and white, and fresh, and not a lot of decay. >> ok. >> so you definitely want to stay away from the ones that are turng brown and looking dehydrated. they actually have some ofhese new cool packages that are easy and convenient for the consumer to close. so easy to put in the fridge, store--always want store them nice and cold in the fridge right away, don't keep them out. um, b some great varieties to choose from. >> so these guys--so i walk up to this--and they do ald look good, i will give you credit. they all do look good. but, i mean, what makes a good mushroom, like-- >> well, you know, one of the growing trends is going to, like, a crimini mushroo. it's a little bit
here to help us out is greg corrigan, senior director of produce and floral here at raley's. greg, good to see you again. >> hey there. >> so when i walk up to this display, i have no idea what makes a good mushroom or a bad mushroom. so how do i pick a good one? >> well, the mushroom guys would argue that they're all good. but there are some differences, and you do want to look for mushrooms that are nice and white, and fresh, and not a lot of decay. >> ok. >> so...
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. >> i want to turn to the parliamentary secretary to the minister of aboriginal affairs in canada, greg rickford. he told global toronto that the government is willing to engage in more dialog between first nations of the canadian government. >> i anders and the dynamic of that demand. we want to be sure never since we're working -- singing from the same songbook. >> pamela palmater, your response? >> it is just more of the status quo. from very early times when negotiated nation and nation based tree relationships, and canadian officials ever since have decided to make laws and policies and direct our committed these without any consent on our part. this is just more of these same. he does not address any of the core issues like a final crisis in many of our communities. the purposeful _ -- underfunding of food, education, water, housing. the very thing that contributes to our premature deaths. he is talking about more dialogue. look where it has brought us? in the last 20 years, every single socio-economic indicator for first nations has gone down hill. when you look at the mandate of
. >> i want to turn to the parliamentary secretary to the minister of aboriginal affairs in canada, greg rickford. he told global toronto that the government is willing to engage in more dialog between first nations of the canadian government. >> i anders and the dynamic of that demand. we want to be sure never since we're working -- singing from the same songbook. >> pamela palmater, your response? >> it is just more of the status quo. from very early times when...
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and there's nobody better to tl us about that than my friend greg corrigan of raley's, vice president of produce and floral here. so, first of all, tomatoes. how do you pick the best tomato? >> well, tomatoes here--one of our best sellers is the tomato on the vine as you're seeing right here. so they're grown actually indoors. so most of the time, all you have to look for is make sure there's no blemishes, no cuts, no scars. but generally they're consistent, good tomatoes. >> ok, so noq we're on to the melon area. what should we look for, like, in a good cantaloupe? what are we looking for? >> well, cantaloupe, again, a lot of it's based on the skin. you don't want to see any blistering or any wrinkling. you want to see a nice, consistent, round, firm flesh to it. a nice and heavy, dense piece of fruit. >> ok. >> as you were noticing here, i think you were gonna... > yeah. is this bad? i mean, i'd look at that and go "ooh." >> it's actually not. actually, all that is is from where it sat on the ground. >> now, what about the honeydew? what are we lookina for? i notice a difference in
and there's nobody better to tl us about that than my friend greg corrigan of raley's, vice president of produce and floral here. so, first of all, tomatoes. how do you pick the best tomato? >> well, tomatoes here--one of our best sellers is the tomato on the vine as you're seeing right here. so they're grown actually indoors. so most of the time, all you have to look for is make sure there's no blemishes, no cuts, no scars. but generally they're consistent, good tomatoes. >> ok, so...